Katerina Izmailova (film adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovichs opera) (subtitles)

Katerina Izmailova (film adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovich's opera) (subtitles)

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Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman.

"Katerina Izmailova" is a 1966 Soviet film adaptation of Dmitry Shostakovich's opera based oh Nikolay Leskov's novel "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District". The film is directed by Mikhail Shapiro, it was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.

It is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994. Dmitri Shostakovich also wrote the screenplay for the screen version of Katerina Izmailova.



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